“For the record,” said Roy Moore’s wife Kayla Moore, speaking at a rally for “Women For Moore” on the Alabama State House Steps about reaction to her husband’s alleged child-molesting scandal “it’s about 90 percent positive… The people of Alabama understand what’s going on here!”

Never was a truer or more unintentionally ironic word spoken. They do indeed.

Try to unpack this: Kayla Moore just described her allegedly pedophile husband who was twice removed from the state Supreme Court for breaking the law, as a “Christian fighting for the acknowledgment of God, for the Second Amendment and for life.”

All too true and why Alabama is a backward mess that rates lowest on every educational economic chart.

Kayla Moore is on to something else too — unintentionally — about the state of the union: “All of the very same people who were attacking President Trump are also attacking us–I personally think he owes us a thank you.” she said. “Have you noticed you’re not hearing too much about Russia?”

Again all too true: any distraction is welcomed by the Trump criminal clan to delay a day of legal/criminal reckoning.

Kayla Moore has shared several Facebook posts with unverified and baseless claims suggesting the Washington Post was offering to pay for accusations against her husband. This was seconded by Moore’s supporters.

Jennifer Case, a speaker on the Alabama State Capitol steps at the same Women for Moore rally declared that Moore “is the closest thing to a founding father that we’ve had in our time.”

In Alabama half the residents are evangelical Christians; double the national average according to Pew Research, and there’s a struggle going on between those who believe in moral standards and those wanting to win the political war “for Jesus” by accepting the nation’s and Moore’s “flaws.”

How can this be happening?

Here’s how: Trumped American evangelicals have long since decided that the only way to win the culture war is to have their churches permanently uncouple from character and moral accountability. If a candidate supports the gun lobby and says gays will burn in hell and that Democrats murder babies- that’s good enough, no matter what else he does to a child or woman, let alone to the poor, or children needing healthcare.

Speaking of ironic endings… American evangelicals are not going out with a whimper but with a Big Bang of moral relativism. They’ve decided that Jesus’ (little known!) command to keep the Republicans in power no matter what, justifies embracing men whose behavior they once would have condemned.

Remember how shocked Christians like Billy Graham were when they heard Nixon’s tapes- his foul language, his racist remarks? Now as long as you’re a “pro-life” Republican with an “A” rating by the NRA/gun-lobby provider of weapons of mass destruction to domestic abuse perpetrators, evangelicals will vote for you no matter how many children you raped or women you grabbed without their permission.

Terry Batton heads Christian Renewal and Development Ministries in Georgetown Ga, and is yet another evangelical moral relativist. He said, “With Roy Moore, if he’s guilty of what they’re talking about, the question is, has he repented of that? If he has, it should be forgotten.”

So evangelical forgiveness is combined with the new theology of power… Jesus died to forgive sins… as long as it’s a Republican in power who needs votes?

Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition said in 1998 that Bill Clinton’s White House affair with Monica Lewinsky rendered him unfit to serve. After the release of videotape showing Trump boasting of grabbing women by their genitals Reed defended Trump. And Reeds’ reaction to Roy Moore? Silence, or forgiving the sinner… whatever.

1980 Watershed: Evangelicals choose between born-again Baptist Sunday school teacher Carter and an actor who signed the most liberal abortion bill in America in CA and whose wife practiced astrology. They pick Reagan.

2017 Watershed: Evangelicals pick assaulter Trump and then later defend Roy Moore over ANY Democrat.

I define the Trump/Moore 2016-17 years as the endgame of evangelical relativism. It began when Christians rallied around Clarence Thomas saying there was nothing believable about Anita Hill’s charges but with Paula Jones and Bill Clinton they came to her defense, legally and financially.

If it’s a woman evangelicals always — but always — believe the man… as long as he’s a “conservative” Republican abuser, not a Liberal abuser, even if she’s a fellow evangelical! Anita Hill was part of the Christian world on the faculty at Oral Roberts University (I met her when I was still a religious right activist and spoke there) yet there was a wholesale evangelical-led effort to delegitimize what she was saying.

Why are claims doubted and systematically undermined by conservatives even when they’re made by a conservative Christian women? Ask the Apostle Paul: “Let the women keep silent in the churches for they are not permitted to speak but let them subject themselves.”

Trump couldn’t have said it better as he grabbed another man’s wife’s genitals.

Don’t be surprised by evangelical women supporting Trump/Moore. Thousands of women opposed women’s suffrage. Many women in conservative Christian settings still celebrate notions of male authority. Then again, some Jews went along with the Nazis in the early 1930s…

Breaking News: A new poll shows nearly 40% of Evangelical Christians in Alabama say they’re now MORE LIKELY (yes you read that right) to vote for Roy Moore AFTER multiple allegations that he molested children.

This is Trumpian logic at work, combined with perpetual victimhood bred in evangelicals raised on the belief that “The World” is against “everything we believe.” So if the same “fake news” that says evolution is true and that climate change is true says one of our own raped a child- it ain’t so!

In case you missed it, here’s Part One of my appearance this morning on AM Joy on MSNBC, discussing the Moral Relativism of the New Evangelical Republican Party, who would rather put all of their support behind and proudly vote for an alleged pedophile (disgraced Judge Roy Moore) and a sexual abuser of multiples of women (BOTH disgraced Judge Roy Moore AND Donald Trump), just to keep hold of power and ensure that no “Evil Democrat” ever wins. Watch:

In case you missed it, here's Part One of my appearance this morning on AM Joy on MSNBC, discussing the Moral Relativism of the New Evangelical Republican Party, who would rather put all of their support behind and proudly vote for an alleged pedophile (disgraced Judge Roy Moore) and a sexual abuser of multiples of women (BOTH disgraced Judge Roy Moore AND Donald Trump), just to keep hold of power and ensure that no "Evil Democrat" ever wins. Watch:Want to learn more about where we're at and how we got here? Discover my new book "Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies," a multi-touch book about art, love and parenting, from the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the prophetic music of Green Day and everything in between, available now exclusively on iBooks.https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/book/letter-to-lucy/id1291078220?mt=11&at=1000lHij

Part Two of my appearance this morning on AM Joy on MSNBC, discussing the Moral Relativism of the New Evangelical Republican Party. In the case of disgraced Judge Roy Moore, one thing I’d never heard of is a man accused by this many credible people that white evangelical Christians, 83% of them, march out and vote for because they have traded a lust for power and revenge on what they regard as a liberal elite for the least vestige of moral principle. Watch:

Part Two of my appearance this morning on AM Joy on MSNBC, discussing the Moral Relativism of the New Evangelical Republican Party. In the case of disgraced Judge Roy Moore, one thing I’d never heard of is a man accused by this many credible people that white evangelical Christians, 83% of them, march out and vote for because they have traded a lust for power and revenge on what they regard as a liberal elite for the least vestige of moral principle. Watch:Want to learn more about where we're at and how we got here? Discover my new book "Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies," a multi-touch book about art, love and parenting, from the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the prophetic music of Green Day and everything in between, available now exclusively on iBooks.https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/book/letter-to-lucy/id1291078220?mt=11&at=1000lHij

Christians see that the charges against Moore are fabricated for political reasons to try to prevent him being elected to the US Senate. If there was any truth to the accusations, they would have been brought years ago. And everyone knows it. Even Frank knows that. Though he wouldn’t admit it.

Frank wants to keep Moore out of the Senate because he does not agree with Moore’s beliefs, and not because of anything Moore might have done forty years ago. Or one year ago. And Frank is willing to lie about Moore in order to keep him from the Senate. We know what you are Frank.

“Idiot wind
Blowing every time you move your mouth
Blowing down the back roads headin’ south
Idiot wind
Blowing every time you move your teeth
You’re an idiot, babe
It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe “

Re-education camps ? Thats like trying to re-educate a Scientologist . e.g. It wouldn’t help unless they chose to finally read that Bible of theirs and open their eyes . And in light of what they’ll see if they do ? Thats never going to happen .

Now detox centers ? … in light of the fact that hypocrisy is as addictive a drug as heroin ? Hmm .. now that might have possibilities … though in light of the evidence at hand .. I somehow doubt it

Nine – Apologies for not excluding Austin .. the greater Austin area .. as well as Marfa and the odd intelligent community here and there doting the landscape . Mea culpa

As for ACL ? Been there – done that – played the main stage ( many times ) got the t-shirts , videos and recordings . One of my favorite music venues in NA . And one of the last where people come to see ( and hear ) the music … rather than to be seen . Trust me … there is nothing worse than playing your heart out to a sea of smartphones

As for the majority of Texas ? As the lyrics of a friend’s song said ” What so great about Texas — I been there and didn’t think much of it “

In light of the fact that the most recent polls including the Pew are now showing that 82% of American ‘ so called ‘ Evangelicals no longer consider ethics or moral character important in their leaders … including home church and politics .. does this come as any surprise ?

Jimmy Carter – A Biblical Christian and a decent man who had the audacity to tell Americans the Biblical Truth that our greed was/is consuming us .. our lifestyle had become unsustainable … and that we all needed live with less

Ronald ( the puppet ) Reagan – A grade B Hollywood actor who’s wife Nancy had a 24/7 Astrologer ( punishable by death in the OT ) while he himself belonged to not one .. but three Satanic secrete societies

And who did the Evangelical Right go for in 1980 ?

Reagan

And the beginning of the end of Biblical Christianity in America had begun

I am sure that Kayla Moore is experiencing the worst time of her life, and a lot of mixed emotions. Sexual predators have very unstable personalities, so Roy Moore will act very strangely nowadays. She will start looking for signs, because no woman wants to be lied to. The problem is, everything is so public and the train is just rolling on, so she hardly have time to really reflect on her situation. Everything she does, has been dictated to her. He did not expect this to come out into the light, so just imagine the shock he’s got. You can see it in his face. He is mad because he got caught out and exposed. Kayla will eventually find time to reflect and investigate the case herself, and be a front woman for teenagers who suffered sexual abuse.

And for your information … the only thing made plain lately is the fact that you are nothing but a pathetic meaningless vapid and inane little pre – adolescent sock puppet troll desperate for attention .

Dear Gary Bryson:
I certainly disagree with Frank, TJ and other petty bourgeoisie supporters. But you make quite a stand. Are there any compelling reasons for which we should believe that you possess the competence [let alone authority] to anathematize Frank?

Thats quite the accusation coming from a self professed member of the conspiracy addled Alt Left such as yourself .

Suffice it to say gdd …. in my never humble opinion tis the likes of yourself that helped end us up with the likes of a Trump ..

,,, and the only thing that is as bad ( if not worse ) than a conspiracy theory addled neo fascist member of the Alt Right .. is a pie in the sky delusional conspiracy theory addled member of the Alt Left .

Which is to say .. grow up … act your age rather than your shoe size .. and start behaving like a responsible adult rathe than a victimized little child

Yes, yes, I’m an inarticulate numbskull with no clue as to what’s up or down. That established, we’ll ignore the indecorous remarks and do to other stuff.

You don’t support the 1% bourgeoisie agenda of the Republican [Corporate] Party. You resurrect Adams’ caution against the 90% proletarian agenda of the socialist platform. What’s left standing if not the next 9% petty bourgeoisie agenda of the Democrat Party?

I’m just askin.’

I assume you to be who you say you are at http://tinyurl.com/y7hoyasg . Don’t worry … it returns to your post to which I replied in my earlier link where you declare yourself to be a reformed theologian/apologist/philosopher etc. I referenced Kupyer and Van Til to indicate a common grounding in faith while admitting that we’re decidedly weak on the ‘transformational’ aspect of ‘kingdom.’ I’m trying to recall if I encountered a ‘TJ Martin’ in something related to emerging religious ideas or something …

Do I read Marx? Yes, although I’ve not made it all the way through Capital’ without breaks. Do I read Scripture? Yes. And like you, I do so in the original languages. And I’m bowing out here for a time to better prepare for a pericope assignment.

That your analysis of the Trump / Clinton Foundation campaign [to the exclusion of a working class perspective] so aptly follows Marxist theory isn’t my doing. And you missed that I was injecting a little levity into the narrative. Didn’t you 😉

Saddling me with responsibility for Trump is rather like blaming Jesus for the Spanish Inquisition. One or two steps are missing. Against the intellectual leprechaun and moral disaster that Trump is, the Democrat candidate ought to have won by 50 points.

Instead the nation was treated to a tale of DNC manipulation of the nomination process some details of which are still becoming public with the publication of Brazile’s book. This required a near hysterical anti-Russian campaign which continues to push the national narrative further right. How any of this is my doing eludes me.

If any one person could be nominated for Trump, I would point to President Barak Obama. The Democrat Party had 8 years. It squandered the allegiance of the citizenry, expanding President Bush’ illegal wars, ejecting more immigrants than any President before him [and possibly more than all Presidents combined], and by initiating varied attacks on the working class. Instead of a transformative Presidency, we saw a massive upward transfer of wealth. That wasn’t my fault either. As one excluded from civic discourse by my proletarian alignment, I had zero responsibility for whatever ‘Trump’ happens.

The working class is awakening to the fact that NEITHER bourgeoisie party represents its interests. Great swathes of people refuse to vote. And it isn’t apathy. It’s principle. The state has turned its back on the working class and abandoned it to its own destiny. The only logical course is to recognize this and make the action mutual by abandoning the state to its own destiny. I lay this political disaster in its entirety at the feet of the political class, the class which actually HAS influence in this political system.

Now more and more refuse to live second-hand lives by interpreting their experience within the strictures dictated by the ruling kakistocracy. Since we get such great governance without public input, let the state be elected without public input! I don’t advocate raising a hand against the state; but neither will I lift a finger to save it. It isn’t apathy; it’s history coming for the United States.

Especially youth turn their backs on the great, idolatrous kakistocracy. They’ll refuse to vote, sit on juries, or recognize the justice of juridical decisions, support police, the military, domestic policy, foreign policy, or any of the institutions and processes of state. I think you’ll see more and more people drawing this conclusion. And it isn’t just here. Around the world, an iconoclastic mind is taking form. And it is so very, very deserved. And in my old age, I must say that I couldn’t be more proud of our youth.

It simply begs to be asked why intelligent proletarians would consent to be retained as political hostages to the malfeasant machinations of a regime which guards the 90% carefully lest it gain political power to direct their own affairs. To reiterate – I know I’m an idiot; but it really would be good to hear why any thinking man would take such corrupt, shallow and illicit process seriously.

1) First off … can the ten dollar words son . I’m neither impressed nor intimidated

2) Once again thats a whole lot of idiotic (ass)umptions and asinine accusations based on much of nothing other than your own personal prejudices biases and fantasy based illusions .. reading into my comments and replies rather than taking the time to READ them !

4) Case in point . Did the fact that I am former SDS somehow escape your biased and prejudiced attention ? Begging the question … how many times have you placed your life and well being on the line in defense of your convictions . Whereas myself ? I can tell you exactly what being tear gassed feels like .. exactly how it feels to be chased for blocks on end by a fully armed member of the NG … as well as what it took to drop the SOB on the ground . So once gain don’t go feeding me any of your radical pretense and Alt Left delusions . You being nothing more than words on the internet .. rather than any actual or viable actions

Begging the question I asked in my second reply to you . How the hell old are you ?

5) In as far as blaming you for Trump ? First your pathetically futile attempt to defend yourself is yet another fine example of a WhatAboutThis defense with one having nothing to do with the other . Might I highly recommend a class in remedial logic , debate and apologetics as well as philosophy and epistemology for beginners rather than your no doubt futile excursion into a pericope study ?

Suffice it to say son … if you didn’t vote for Hillary .. much as many of us may of despised her …. you helped put Trump in office . Period And fact … not your deluded self righteous PDVS ( post decision validation syndrome ) alternative reality

6) Oh gee .. you’ve read one book written by Marx … and even that you’ve yet to of finished .. and that somehow within your own mind makes you and expert ?

7) Best take the time to read and comprehend the likes of Van Til etc before passing erroneous judgements based on what others have said about them rather than what they have written themselves . And yes … your comments make it obvious that is what you have done

8) And oh the poor down trodden working class in America .. steeped within a victim syndrome of their own making voting against themselves while ignoring opportunities right under their noses ( re 450,000 well paying jobs in the trades alone unfilled ) blaming their lives on the elites focusing on the speck of dust rather than the 1/2 ton steel I beam in their own

A book recommend little man ” Culture of Complaint ” by Robert Hughes

In conclusion .. here is my 2nd reply in full that you obviously ignored ;

As adults we chose the battles worth fighting having the potential of winning .. not the ones that guaranteed will end up as abject exercises in futility leaving us five steps behind where we started from .

Which is to say a little selectivity along with maturity , discretion and an overall grasp of reality and the situation at hand not to mention the potential consequences therein are in order when picking and choosing the battles we fight

In other words : The battle you’re intimating is a lost cause before its even started … regardless of how right or wrong it may be .

Tell you what gdd.. I’m going to make a little (ass)umption here myself based on this and your previous comments . I’m going to assume age wise you’re somewhere between 17 – 25

And in light of that potentially erroneous (ass)umption .. I’m about to tell you what I’ve told hundreds of students between those ages over the years and decades I’ve taught . That being ;

At your age you incorrectly assume you have all the answers . Whereas in reality you don’t have a clue what 80% of the questions are .. never mind the answers . But in case you’re assuming I think at my age I know all the answers . The reality is .. at my age I finally can say I know approximately what 80% of the questions are . Knowing all to well I barely have the answers for half of them .

On 2nd thought gdd. You are a waste of air and my precious time . So don’t bother responding with yet another plethora of bloviated blithering blatherskite bs barely capable of fertilizing a corn field never mind being worth anyone’s time and attention

May God have mercy on this delusional Twitterfied youth of America addled by celebrity and addicted to entertainment to the point of having become nothing more than regurgitating little drones completely devoid of discernment or original thought

If Moore thinks he is slandered by these accusations, he can file for defamation of character.

As for Trump, his disgusting attitude and profligate behavior toward women receives is criticized justly. Yet when Mr. Trump orders airstrikes that kill dozens of Afghan civilians, or hundreds of Syrian civilians weekly in Raqqa, who calls for his prosecution for the war criminal that he is?

1) tinyurl … apologies … but I still will not use it ( for security reasons I seldom if ever click on links provided on open forums such as this )

2) So just who in the ___ do you in your conspiracy addled thinking presume my so called ‘ colleagues’ .. to be ? Better yet in light of your recent (ass)umptions , accusations and insults . Who or what do you mistakenly presume me to be ?

3) In addition my theories as you mistakenly call them are anything but Marxist . One serious read of Scripture within the context intended going back to the original language when needed shows that Christ and all the Apostles who’s writings appear in the Bible mandated a communal lifestyle .

Which then begs the question … have you ever read either Marx ( Karl not Groucho ) or Scripture ?

Suffice it to say gdd .. if your intent was to place yourself on some higher moral ground than myself … you failed .. on all counts .. especially when it comes to your misguided and uninformed (ass)umptions

As adults we chose the battles worth fighting having the potential of winning .. not the ones that guaranteed will end up as abject exercises in futility leaving us five steps behind where we started from .

Which is to say a little selectivity along with maturity , discretion and an overall grasp of reality and the situation at hand not to mention the potential consequences therein are in order when picking and choosing the battles we fight

In other words : The battle you’re intimating is a lost cause before its even started … regardless of how right or wrong it may be .

Tell you what gdd.. I’m going to make a little (ass)umption here myself based on this and your previous comments . I’m going to assume age wise you’re somewhere between 17 – 25

And in light of that potentially erroneous (ass)umption .. I’m about to tell you what I’ve told hundreds of students between those ages over the years and decades I’ve taught . That being ;

At your age you incorrectly assume you have all the answers . Whereas in reality you don’t have a clue what 80% of the questions are .. never mind the answers . But in case you’re assuming I think at my age I know all the answers . The reality is .. at my age I finally can say I know approximately what 80% of the questions are . Knowing all to well I barely have the answers for half of them .

Dear Frank, I’ve never had to be quick witted in an interview.. but I think you can say it very succinctly, ,that we have arrived at the place where we parse the fine points of a candidate’s child molestation in order to justify our political support — within a religious community’ Meanwhile, Jimmy Carter is building fighting off cancer and building houses — and he’s considered some kind of disgrace by the same community.

” that we have arrived at the place where we parse the fine points of a candidate’s child molestation in order to justify our political support ”

… there is a psychological term for that condition . Its called ;

PDVS = post decision validation syndrome .. where regardless of how misguided or wrong the decision may be and despite all the evidence at hand one continues to try and validate said decision using any and all means possible

As for Jimmy Carter . The simple fact is he is far too decent and moral a man as well as far too Biblically correct to ever appeal to the misguided and hypocritical minions pretending to be christians in todays Evangelical Fundamentalist White America . Yesterdays as well for that matter .

This is for Gary Bryson above as I will attempt to use performance art to get my point across and that means one must click on the link and watch this very short video and I spent nearly a half an hour going through Frank Shaeffer”s links to this story.

Its a show called The Trailer Park boys put on by our friends north of the border and I fear all of America is a trailer park now.